I am a historian of premodern Japan and currently the Operations Leader of Japan Past & Present, a global information hub and repository that promotes research and teaching in the Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders and a project of the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities at UCLA. My research focuses on metal caster organizations from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries and their relationships with elite institutions. I also work on documentary forgery production and socioeconomic networks during Japan’s late medieval period.
I am interested in digital humanities and the use of digital tools to analyze premodern historical sources. I manage and collaborate in several online projects, including the Digital Humanities Japan initiative; an online database for resources related to East Asia; the collection and visualization of job market data in East Asian Studies, and formerly the blog What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? and the digital archive Carving Community: The Landis-Hiroi Collection.
